Long-term parking in/around Berkeley?

[Rapier21]

I'm driving up to UC Berkeley this weekend to visit my friend, and I need to find some place to stash my car overnight. Does anybody know of any reasonably priced places to park that will let me do overnight/long term parking?

~Rapier21

 

[PaNsyBoy8]

if your up for the weekend, where is your friend, my street has free parking on weekends

 

park it on some protesters. They have plenty to spare.

 

[hamburglar]

none that i know of.

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: Rapier21
I'm driving up to UC Berkeley this weekend to visit my friend, and I need to find some place to stash my car overnight. Does anybody know of any reasonably priced places to park that will let me do overnight/long term parking?

~Rapier21

reasonably priced? nope.

 

[lukatmyshu]

Dolph ... I'm surprised you didn't answer better. MLK (Martin Luther King) around Dwight has free parking. No two hour limit or anything. Wait ... I just realized that the UCLA game is this Saturday. You're screwed. My suggestion is getting a parking permit (Center street and Shattuck) and parking it on Friday. Don't touch it until Sunday. There is NO way you're going to get street parking on Saturday.

 

[spp]

if it's over the weekend you're fine.. but if it's weekday you need to get temporary parking permit ..... pain in the ass but it's the city what can i say?

i believe that you have to get a visiting permit on this place shattuck .... and addison? or something like that. (it's not center... i know that much)

 

[dolph]

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu
Dolph ... I'm surprised you didn't answer better. MLK (Martin Luther King) around Dwight has free parking. No two hour limit or anything. Wait ... I just realized that the UCLA game is this Saturday. You're screwed. My suggestion is getting a parking permit (Center street and Shattuck) and parking it on Friday. Don't touch it until Sunday. There is NO way you're going to get street parking on Saturday.

but who would want to walk that far? that's such a bad neighborhood, and i hear some bad $hit goes down there.

 

[spp]

Originally posted by: dolph

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu
Dolph ... I'm surprised you didn't answer better. MLK (Martin Luther King) around Dwight has free parking. No two hour limit or anything. Wait ... I just realized that the UCLA game is this Saturday. You're screwed. My suggestion is getting a parking permit (Center street and Shattuck) and parking it on Friday. Don't touch it until Sunday. There is NO way you're going to get street parking on Saturday.

but who would want to walk that far? that's such a bad neighborhood, and i hear some bad $hit goes down there.

o it's not that bad..... what are you living in dorms or something?

 

[lukatmyshu]

Originally posted by: dolph

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu Dolph ... I'm surprised you didn't answer better. MLK (Martin Luther King) around Dwight has free parking. No two hour limit or anything. Wait ... I just realized that the UCLA game is this Saturday. You're screwed. My suggestion is getting a parking permit (Center street and Shattuck) and parking it on Friday. Don't touch it until Sunday. There is NO way you're going to get street parking on Saturday.

but who would want to walk that far? that's such a bad neighborhood, and i hear some bad $hit goes down there.

It's cleaned up a lot in the past few months .... there used to be these real fvcked up guys living above the Chiropracters place ..... one of the guys would always walk around in his boxer-briefs in the middle of the afternoon. Not a pleasant site. In any case since there is a game rest assured that there will be no parking available anywhere.

 

[spp]

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu

Originally posted by: dolph

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu Dolph ... I'm surprised you didn't answer better. MLK (Martin Luther King) around Dwight has free parking. No two hour limit or anything. Wait ... I just realized that the UCLA game is this Saturday. You're screwed. My suggestion is getting a parking permit (Center street and Shattuck) and parking it on Friday. Don't touch it until Sunday. There is NO way you're going to get street parking on Saturday.

but who would want to walk that far? that's such a bad neighborhood, and i hear some bad $hit goes down there.

It's cleaned up a lot in the past few months .... there used to be these real fvcked up guys living above the Chiropracters place ..... one of the guys would always walk around in his boxer-briefs in the middle of the afternoon. Not a pleasant site. In any case since there is a game rest assured that there will be no parking available anywhere.

o i heard from my friend that there's a place around there with lots of pinball machines..... where a lot of old hippies hang out... it's every sat. night or something and they hang a blue light outside the apartment....

 

[Dragnov]

Does Not Exist.

I visited my Berkeley friends as you did. You have to get a permit from the city (which I forgot the cost but is an extrodinary rip off) and then finding a spot is nearly impossible. It's dangerous as fsck (narrow, hilly streets) and lots of cars are broken into (friends car got broken into twice at his apartment parking). Seriously, bring a cr@p car and blend in. I was able to park at my friend's sister apartment for a few days (don't plan on moving your car ever though).

Berkeley is a POS city IMO. Bums, dirty, old, druggies, and you feel unsafe. I don't see how anyone can like that place. Visit San Francisco and stay there.

 

[lukatmyshu]

Originally posted by: spp
if it's over the weekend you're fine.. but if it's weekday you need to get temporary parking permit ..... pain in the ass but it's the city what can i say? i believe that you have to get a visiting permit on this place shattuck .... and addison? or something like that. (it's not center... i know that much)

I'm pretty sure it's Center Street in between Shattuck and Milvia. This is only 'cuz I got a bunch of parking tickets in a month and kept going there. So I am fairly certain it's Center.

Edit: I can't understand why people constantly call Berkeley a crappy place. At least three of my friends have BMWs here .... not one has been broken into (knocking on wood) .... sure we've got a lot of bums ... but they're harmless. And all those people who are always talking about how we're constantly protesting .... there are maybe 200 people that go to Cal that constantly protest, the rest of us just go to school all day long. By the way ... a one day parking permit is 50 cents. I fail to see how that can be a rip-off. If you want to park for longer .... i.e. 14 days, it's two bucks. IMHO Berkeley is ten times easier and better to park in that Westwood. I hated having to get up in the morning and move my car to the other side of the street for street sweeping. WTF? Why do you need to sweep a street EVERY day.

 

[spp]

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu

Originally posted by: spp
if it's over the weekend you're fine.. but if it's weekday you need to get temporary parking permit ..... pain in the ass but it's the city what can i say? i believe that you have to get a visiting permit on this place shattuck .... and addison? or something like that. (it's not center... i know that much)

I'm pretty sure it's Center Street in between Shattuck and Milvia. This is only 'cuz I got a bunch of parking tickets in a month and kept going there. So I am fairly certain it's Center.

hmmm.... i've been there and got permits a few times... and i didn't remember it being center .... but then again i didn't really pay attention

 

[ed21x]

its really not that bad here... But if you're looking for good parking, the Unit 3 Parking structure on 2400 Durant seems safe, albeit expensive. There's another parking structure by the foothill complex (dunno the street name) that also seems pretty safe. Expect to be paying a premium for parking, but you will be able to get a space. I really wouldn't recommend parking on the streets. If your friend is living in an apartment, most apartments have underground parking, so that might be your best option.

good luck,

 

[Sid59]

nah .. Berkeley Rocks.

MLK and Durant is fine. Stop being so afraid. I'm always in that area and often walk from Milvia and Alston down to MLK to the park near Ashby.

You haven't said where your friend lives near. So i really can't tell ya where to park your car. If you really don't care. Bring a car cover and park your car and then cover your car and black out the plats and VIN so they can't ticket you. hahahahaha.

Parking west of Telegraph need those residential stickers and such to park during the day and such and east of telegraph, you jsut need dumb luck to find a space.

 

[Stark]

There's a BART station a few stops north of Berkeley with free parking. You could park there and take BART back down. I think it's El Cerrito Plaza or El Cerrito del Norte.

 

[lukatmyshu]

Dude ... whenever there is a football game at UCLA you have a few thousand people invade the city. Parking prices go up significantely. If you can leave your car somewhere from Friday onwards then you're fine. but if you're planning on driving anywhere on Saturday then make sure you avoid game times (it starts at 4:30 so pretty much anytime after 12:00 you're going to have problems parking). If you come in before 5 on Friday, just drive to the parking office with your friend (she/he needs an ID and a utilities bill), and get a parking permit for her area. Then leave your car and don't touch it til after the game.

 

[Fausto]

Wow. All these replies and not a single unsolicited knee-jerk "F*ck Berkeley!! Nuke those effing liberal commie dickheads!!" among them. I'm shocked.

 

[Rapier21]

Yea, as long as I can get in the city of berkeley, I'm fine, I can walk or take BART if it's that far, etc. Looking for anything that's easy and not $30, heh. However, does anybody have the address of this parking office where I get the permits? I can't find any info about it online.

EDIT: I'm driving up Friday late afternoon and leaving Sunday afternoon, so hopefully I won't have to deal at all with traffic generated by the game.
EDIT2: Hrm, could I theoretically get one of these parking permits at City Hall?

Thanks to everyone who posted.

~Rapier21

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Wow. All these replies and not a single unsolicited knee-jerk "F*ck Berkeley!! Nuke those effing liberal commie dickheads!!" among them. I'm shocked.

I was coming in here to say that. Fvck you beat me to it. Here goes:

Fvck Berkeley give me the codes for one day and I will nuke those effing commie liberal child molestors. AhHAHAH

I feel much better now.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Millenium

Originally posted by: Fausto1
Wow. All these replies and not a single unsolicited knee-jerk "F*ck Berkeley!! Nuke those effing liberal commie dickheads!!" among them. I'm shocked.

I was coming in here to say that. Fvck you beat me to it. Here goes:

Fvck Berkeley give me the codes for one day and I will nuke those effing commie liberal child molestors. AhHAHAH

I feel much better now.

/hands Millenium a Paxil, chamomile tea and an Enya CD.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Rapier21
Yea, as long as I can get in the city of berkeley, I'm fine, I can walk or take BART if it's that far, etc. Looking for anything that's easy and not $30, heh. However, does anybody have the address of this parking office where I get the permits? I can't find any info about it online.

EDIT: I'm driving up Friday late afternoon and leaving Sunday afternoon, so hopefully I won't have to deal at all with traffic generated by the game.
EDIT2: Hrm, could I theoretically get one of these parking permits at City Hall?

Thanks to everyone who posted.

~Rapier21

As mentioned, you have to be a resident to get a street parking permit for unlimited daytime parking (no restrictions between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.). All you'd really need to do is have a friend go purchase the permit (it's cheap) during business hours and write down YOUR vehicle's plate number. The permit is displayed on the dashboard. It should be noted that Berkeley's parket ticket industry is extremely lucrative. I don't know if it's still true or not, but I did at one time here that the per capita parking tickets for Berkeley is 7/year. Sounds a little inflated, but don't test the meter maids in Berkeley.

As an aside, it's pretty silly that UCB still garners the reputation of the 1960s, rather than 2002. Sure, it's a very "liberal" area, but the students themselves hardly embody radical tendencies. It's been years since UCB was considered an activist campus.

 

[lukatmyshu]

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: Rapier21 Yea, as long as I can get in the city of berkeley, I'm fine, I can walk or take BART if it's that far, etc. Looking for anything that's easy and not $30, heh. However, does anybody have the address of this parking office where I get the permits? I can't find any info about it online. EDIT: I'm driving up Friday late afternoon and leaving Sunday afternoon, so hopefully I won't have to deal at all with traffic generated by the game. EDIT2: Hrm, could I theoretically get one of these parking permits at City Hall? Thanks to everyone who posted. ~Rapier21

As mentioned, you have to be a resident to get a street parking permit for unlimited daytime parking (no restrictions between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.). All you'd really need to do is have a friend go purchase the permit (it's cheap) during business hours and write down YOUR vehicle's plate number. The permit is displayed on the dashboard. It should be noted that Berkeley's parket ticket industry is extremely lucrative. I don't know if it's still true or not, but I did at one time here that the per capita parking tickets for Berkeley is 7/year. Sounds a little inflated, but don't test the meter maids in Berkeley. As an aside, it's pretty silly that UCB still garners the reputation of the 1960s, rather than 2002. Sure, it's a very "liberal" area, but the students themselves hardly embody radical tendencies. It's been years since UCB was considered an activist campus.

So true manly ... I remember my freshman year here they published a report of the most liberal campuses around the nation ... UCB was like 12th (behind LA and such) ... I forget what school was number one but the students had recently gone on strike and forced the administration to stop using a company that had some unethical business practices.
BTW .. it's 2020 Center Street.